TAXE ON RAIN ?

Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to "raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay," according to MarylandReporter.com.

anothermark 2 years 15 weeks 1 hour 29 min ago

Why not tax breathing, I mean if the government can tax rain why not the air that we breath? How would they measure the rainfall on a particular property? and what if I collected the rain, still have to pay the tax?